For most of my adult life, I’ve picked my health insurance based on one simple standard: Does my beloved primary care doctor participate in the plan?
Medicare For All News
Once Its Greatest Foes, Doctors Are Embracing Single-Payer
Though “single-payer” health care was long dismissed as a left-wing pipe dream, polling suggests a slim majority of Americans now support the idea.
Medicare for All: A Win-Win Issue for Candidates in the 2018 Midterms
Health care is a priority issue right now for many Americans, as rump & GOP move to destroy Obamacare, Medicaid, Medicare, and CHIP. It’s time to push Medicare for all.
Bernie Sanders Goes to Canada for Health Care Inspiration
Bernie Sanders to set the Canadian Single-Payer healthcare myth perpetrated by the U.S. for-profit medical industrial complex straight?
How to Build a Single-Payer Health System: Lessons From Taiwan’s Turnaround
There are obvious reasons why some people in the United States oppose the prospect of single-payer health care; taking the profit out of health care — a moral imperative.
Canada’s Single-Payer Health System: What Is True? What Is False?
It’s a regular part of the politically charged debate over health care. Let’s get some truths out about the Canadian single-payer system.
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
Buyers Of Short-Term Health Plans: Wise Or Shortsighted?
Supporters of the nation’s health law condemn short-term health plans. A few states, California and New York, have banned them. Other states limit them.
How The Farm Bill Could Erode Part Of The Affordable Care Act
Some Republican lawmakers continue to try to work around the Affordable Care Act, the federal health law’s requirements. That strategy can crop up in surprising places. Like the farm bill.
Republicans knew ACA sabotage would skyrocket premiums: They Did It Anyway
The Republicans willfully sabotaged the ACA with the intent of killing with a thousand cuts and they knew it meant skyrocketing premiums.
With Some Republican Support, Virginia Edges Closer To Medicaid Expansion
Virginia is among 18 states that did not accept the Medicaid Expansion to the Affordable Care Act. This year, the state legislature is closer than it has been in the past.
Health Care Plans More Affordable This Year Than Ever Before
According to a recent Department of HHS analysis, 8 out of 10 people qualify for a health care plans that cost less than $75 each month.